Pupillage Vacancy Information
The pupillage award is £25,000, payable as a tax-free award in the First Six of £15,000 and as guaranteed receipts of £10,000 during the Second Six. Pupils can expect to significantly exceed their guaranteed earnings and our pupils can expect to bill around £30,000 in their second six. During their Second Six, pupils can expect to be in Court most days.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion
We are a chambers that are committed to diversity. All barristers who are involved in pupillage recruitment have undertaken equality and diversity training, including unconscious bias training, in line with chambers' equality and diversity policy.
We mark pupillage applications with names and universities anonymised.
How to Apply
Aspiring barristers are invited to apply to chambers between Wednesday 4 January 2023 and Wednesday 8 February 2023 using the Pupillage Gateway application system to search for the relevant Pupillage Vacancy and selecting ‘Apply for this pupillage’.
In addition to the standardised Bar Council questionnaire, candidates will be asked to respond to the following questions from Chambers:
- Why do you believe you will make a good barrister?
- Why do you want to join our chambers?
- Tell us about a family law case decided in the last 12 months that you most disagree with and why
About AETO and Structure of Pupillage
We are a friendly and diverse family and civil chambers seeking to recruit two pupils to undertake a family pupillage commencing in October 2023.
Our pupils are trained in all areas of family law including public children, private children, domestic abuse injunctions, matrimonial finance and the law relating to cohabitees. A family pupil would be supported to explore the civil work available in chambers if they wished to do so but this is not a requirement.
We have an open door policy and pupils are encouraged to shadow all members of chambers to gain exposure to a wide variety of work within chambers.
We have a strong history of recruiting tenants from our pupils and we offer pupillage with a view to tenancy. We highly value pupils in chambers and are committed to ensuring that they are trained to be the best barristers that they can be. We assess pupils throughout their pupillage including through advocacy and written exercises.
Pupils are given 4 supervisors and will rotate to a new supervisor every 3 months. In addition to their supervisor, pupils are allocated a junior member of chambers to mentor them and provide them with guidance and assistance.
